lose
verb
[ luːz ]
• be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something).
• "I've lost my appetite"
Similar:
be deprived of,
suffer the loss of,
no longer have,
stop having,
• become unable to find (something or someone).
• "I've lost the car keys"
Similar:
mislay,
misplace,
be unable to find,
drop,
forget,
overlook,
lose track of,
leave (behind),
fail to keep/retain,
fail to keep sight of,
• fail to win (a game or contest).
• "England lost the first Test match"
Similar:
be defeated,
be beaten,
suffer defeat,
be the loser,
be conquered,
be vanquished,
be trounced,
be worsted,
be bested by,
get/have the worst,
come off second-best,
lose out,
fail,
come to grief,
meet one's Waterloo,
come a cropper,
go down,
take a licking,
• earn less (money) than one is spending or has spent.
• "the paper is losing £1.5 million a month"
• waste or fail to take advantage of (time or an opportunity).
• "he has lost his chance of becoming world No. 1"
Similar:
neglect,
waste,
squander,
fail to grasp,
fail to take,
fail to take advantage of,
let pass,
miss,
forfeit,
give up,
ignore,
disregard,
pass up,
lose out on,
Origin:
Old English losian ‘perish, destroy’, also ‘become unable to find’, from los ‘loss’.
